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26 of July, 2016Research
Where would students like to continue their education? The continuing education plans of students from the country’s best high schools

The IEER analysis examines plans for further education of students from the nation’s best high schools. The results show that a vast majority of students want to continue their education, namely at national institutions of higher education, and only 7% of them would study abroad (as well). The available statistics also indicate that Hungarian students do not participate in large numbers in (long-term) foreign study, but in recent years their numbers show a growing trend.

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14 of December, 2015Research
Do young humanities and arts graduates have a labor market disadvantage in Hungary?

The study examines the employment status (i) and wages (ii) of young humanities and arts graduates compared to other graduates in Hungary using the 2013 data of the Hungarian Graduate Career Tracking System. The dataset has several limitations regarding reliability and validity, which we attempted to correct to improve the quality of our estimations. The results requires further research. We find that amongst males the conditional overall employment differences for humanities and arts graduates without a degree requirement are not statistically significant. As for jobs requiring tertiary education and salaries disadvantage is present only compared to engineering, information technology and economics or business graduates. Amongst females we find that the conditional employment differences vary greatly by the definition of degree requirement, so our results are unequivocal. However salary disadvantage is statistically significant compared to engineering, information technology and economics or business graduates. Our results suggest that in Hungary young graduates with these three degrees have more advantageous labor market outcomes than others, but the situation of humanities and arts graduates does not differ greatly from the rest of the disciplines.

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23 of July, 2015Research
Where do I want to continue my studies? The further education plans of students from the best national high schools - 2015

Only few of the Hungarian high school students intend to attend undergraduate programmes abroad, although their numbers show a growing trend in recent years. This is what IEER research examining the intentions of continuing education reveals, in addition to the fact that the Hungarian school system is unable to overcome the disadvantages caused by family background, that is, promote social mobility. Based on the 2013 National Skills Assessment the best national high schools receive only a very small proportion of students whose father has a low level of education or low labour market status. Our results also suggest that at the post-secondary level the education system reinforces existing inequalities. This can be concluded from the fact that the ratio of students who apply to the prestigious universities in Budapest is significantly lower in the lagging northern and lowland regions (even in the best high schools of these areas) than in the region of Central Hungary. The study was based on 770 responses conducted among the graduate students of thirty Hungarian public high schools, which were the best within their region according to the 2013 National Skills Assessment.

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3 of June, 2015Research
Data on the employment of graduates

Our analysis presents graduates and their socio-economic role and labour market situation based on facts from several researches and correlations that followed from the data. With this we would like to help individuals, institutes and policymakers. The overview is a continuation, the actualization of certain points, and extension of a similar study published two years ago by the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research (IEER).

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30 of January, 2015Research
The implementation of wage compensation in the private sector

The wage compensation policy helped to offset the negative effect on employment of expected wage increases. The IEER study presents the effects on employment due to the legislative changes of 2012 using data from the National Labour Centre’s Wage Survey and the Hungarian Labor Market Forecast.

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2 of October, 2014Research
How Good is the Purchasing Managers' Index at Forecasting?

The latest GVI study examined the predictive ability of the Purchasing Managers Index. PMI forecasts are more accurate in forecasting a growth in industrial production volume as opposed to a decline. However, upon examining the extent of these changes, a significant correlation can be seen in the changes to the PMI and changes in industrial production three months later.

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6 of August, 2014Research
Which are the poorest and richest regions in Hungary?

Social and economic developments after the regime change in 1989 have completely transformed our country. In many ways, Hungary was divided into two parts. The advanced, more developed area is increasingly linked to the more developed parts of the EU in all aspects and is an economically and socially emerging area, comprising of the capital city and its environs as well as the north-western part of the country. By contrast, all other parts of the country are increasingly separated from this developed region, and thus also the European average. To further awareness of this situation the HCCI IEER prepared the social and economic profiles of Hungary's regions in 2013 in which the development path of individual regions was clearly shown. In this analysis, based on the latest available data (2007-2012), the differences in the state of development of the 198 Hungarian statistical districts were examined. We present maps showing development on a statistical district scale. The analysis focuses on the regional differences of certain processes and phenomena, and provides an answer to the question of which are the most developed and most underdeveloped regions of our country.

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23 of July, 2014Research
An increasing number of Hungarian students apply to British universities

Between 2006 and 2013 the number of Hungarian high school graduates applying to British universities increased significantly, by nearly 2.7-fold, while other Visegrad countries were characterized by much lower growth rates. Besides, the research of IEER examining the prospects for further studies also reveals that regional disparities in further education are discernible within Hungary. Children from the underdeveloped Northern and Great Plains regions usually don't apply for universities in Budapest or abroad, whereas in the region of Central Hungary students most often choose the most prestigious universities of Budapest. The study was conducted on graduating students at thirty Hungarian state high schools; the results are based on 704 responses.

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23 of June, 2014Research
Data on Vocational Training and Employment of Skilled Workers

How can we characterize the Hungarian vocational training, what can we interpret the trends? How can we describe the students in the vocational schools and what awaits them on the labour market? These questions were analyzed by the Institute for Economic and Enterprise Research by summarizing the facts and data referring to the vocational training from the last 10-15 years.

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11 of June, 2014Research
RDTCs Decisions are Taken Little into Account by Vocational Schools

It is a very important requirement for skills training in the public education system that students obtain the skills and trades necessary for long-term access to the labor market. One important condition is that the schism between trades obtained at vocational school and the needs of the labor market be narrowed. In order to facilitate this goal, the Hungarian government developed a system in which the Regional Development and Training Committees (RDTCs) between 2008 and 2012 proposed a vocational training school structure on a regional basis. The IEER latest analysis examines how training schools responded to the proposals of the RDTCs education structure, and how proposals have been taken into account when making enrollment decisions. A key finding of this analysis is that RDTCs decisions have only minor influence on the future development of student numbers.

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